Nico has spent the past two weeks fighting with his cousin's best friend, Shea. He spent the six or so weeks before that going out of his way to talk to Shea's bullies and find every little reason to hate the blue-haired weirdo. Nico spent at least 8 weeks with late night thoughts telling him this was the way it had to be. He was straight, he had a girlfriend, and he was "normal". But straight guys don't need to talk themselves out of a crush on a guy.